Clamp for wire ropes



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H. R. TAYLOR.

@LAMP FOR WRE RPES- No. 300,408. Pat-entedJune 17, 1884.

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IINiTED STATES APnfrnivr Orricn.

HENRY R. TAYLOR, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CLAMP FOR WIRE ROPES.

@PECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,408, dated June 17, 1884.

Application led January 25, 1884.

To (LN 101mm it' mfg/yf conce/"rt:

Be it known that I, HENRY It. TAYLOR., n citizen of the United States, residing et San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California., have invented n new and useful Improvement in Clamps forlVire Ropes, of which the following is n specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a nnen-ns whereby7 the abrasion or weer upon the wire rope or cable running` between grippers or rollers is inore nearly reduced to n. minimum than hns heretofore been possible.

In the accompanying drawings, forming n part of this specification, Figure l is n trousverse section of the Wire-rope cable apparatus, showing one of the pulleys in section. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the seine with one side of check-plate removed.

Si inilnr l ctters refer to similar parts throughout the several cases.

My present invention is nu iniproveinentin clamps for Wire ropes, tor which Letters Pntent of the United States were granted to ine December 5, 1876, No. 184,995, in which endless chains nre employed to lit the surface of the rope, and provide Ways Within which the said chains are caused to move around blocks.

A and A. represent the endless chains, mede in sections, so as to intimately fit together to (No model.)

anglesy or projections at the joints that Will injure the wire rope. lVithin the elongated circle or trend describedby the endless chains when in action, and at the extreme ends there of, I place the friction-rollers or pulleys B B, and these rotate on their axes with the endless chn-ins, 'whereby the friction ofthe endless ropeis more nearly reduced to t miniinnin than by the use of the fixed gnidepieces in my former invention noove referred to, as the chai ns will move freely and with less friction.

Having thns described inyinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

In combination with traveling or moving` clamps for wire ropes, the gnidingrollers or friction-pulleys, constructed, arranged, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth and speciiied.

In testimony,r that I cleini the foregoing,` I have heren nto set my hand and seal.

TIEN-RY R. TYLR. [L SJ XVit-n esses I C. YV. M. SMITH, Crus. E. KELLY.

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